ferryboat

Example Sentences

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Mr. Erdogan, 70, grew up in Istanbul, where his father worked as a ferryboat captain.

From New York Times • Mar. 31, 2024

I grew up fishing with my dad on Fauntleroy Cove, feasting on fried rockfish and falling asleep to ferryboat foghorns.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 6, 2023

Dotted with details of her particular milieu — the ferryboat, the crepe shop, the rock show that leaves glitter in the eyelashes — “Monsters” is part memoir, part treatise and all treat.

From New York Times • Apr. 23, 2023

The Pennsylvania Railroad had previously its terminus for New York in New Jersey at Jersey City, and passengers were forced to ride a ferryboat across the Hudson to get to New York.

From Washington Post • Aug. 19, 2021

All the ferryboat passengers were waving their hats and hankies.

From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman